Pinehill, NM

Pinehill or Pine Hill is a census-designated place in Cibola County, New Mexico, United States. The 2010 census counted 88 residents. Pinehill is located on the Ramah Navajo Indian Reservation. Pinehill is located in western Cibola County, 12 miles south of New Mexico State Road 53 and 62 miles southeast of Gallup. Pine Hill is the location of the Pine Hill Schools, a tribal school operated by the Ramah Navajo School Board. Many children also attend the public schools in Ramah, New Mexico, including Ramah Elementary School and Ramah Middle/High School, operated by the Gallup-McKinley County Schools. The short version is that Pinehill carries an earlier story into the places people know and use now. That is the local read on Pinehill: its past remains attached to the places people use now. Grants, the Cibola County seat, is 58 miles to the northeast.